a belief, often subconscious, among white liberals that being white is, in and of itself, a great transgression against the rest of the world for which one must spend their life making atonement. It is often exemplified by embracing the cultures and philosophies of various other ethnic groups while neglecting one's own roots.

Although Randy came from a family of middle-class W.A.S.P.s from the suburbs, his white guilt later spurred him to become a Rastafarian.

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The result of a wide spread racist propaganda campaign launched against European-Americans by various racist groups, individuals, Government public schools and was encouraged by many media outlets in the late 1990s.

The propaganda campaign goals were to diminish any sense of a European-American’s pride in oneself and their community. To encourage European-Americans to feel that the only way for them to feel is self-sacrificing for non-whites and to ignore their own interests. And to tarnish history with over exaggerations, wild claims all while pressuring publishers of books to underplay great accomplishments of history.

Most European-Americans see the propaganda for what it is, however to this day many still hold onto white guilt because it was the way they were taught in school as children and don't realize it is the result of a propaganda campaign.

At the height of the propaganda campaign was the Wichita Massacre, where several black men brutally beaten and murdered many whites in the ice cold feilds of Wichita, the media grossly hid the story from public view despite organizations such as the European-American Issues Forum bringing the case to their attention. Also came in to play was the notion to give greater punishment to whites who commit racial based crimes and ignore racial based crimes against whites.

A few examples of the propaganda campaign against white people of European ancestry:

"White folks was in caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it." -- Rev. Al Sharpton

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years." -- Louis Farrakhan who campaigned for congresswoman Cynthia McKinney in 2002, City College audience in New York

"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health." -- Charles Barron, a New York city councilman at a reparations rally, 2002

"Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them." -- Mary Frances Berry, Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights

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What misguided liberal white people feel when blacks blame the issues in their community (or that their black ass is in jail) on something that happened with a small area in the southern United States more than 200 years ago.

Despite giving them affirmative action and welfare, Melanie still felt a lot of white guilt because black people are useless in today's society.

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those suffering from White Guilt are primarily the (Liberal) Democrats, many of whom voted for Obama because Obama is Black simply to show they were not racist, even though voting for a Black Man simply because he is Black is exactly what a racist does: he sees the color of a man's skin rather than judging him based on his character or his deeds.

Republicans are quite content to see a man based on his ideas rather than skin tone. In fact, Herman Cain is a rising star in the Republican Party because of his likability and conservative ideals and not because he happens to be Black.

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In addition to the highest voted definitions here, it's also a tool used against whites to gain something, (which could be just about anything, by non-whites, and often even many liberal whites).

It's also often meshed into the meaning of "pulling the you're a racist card", intended to publicly, or even privately shame a white person of group of white people into politically correct submission, because everyone knows what happens in America when white people are considered racist.

It will go on until the end of time itself no matter the fact that black people already have thousands of millionaires (athletes, actors, musicians) who make countless more money than whites, a black president and first lady, black political leaders, the NAACP to help them advance whereas white people don't have special organizations to specifically help their colored race, Black specific television channels (BET and MTV) and magazines (Ebony Jet, etc.), a thriving interracial porn niche, countless white women having black babies, special help for getting into colleges, and the list goes on and on.

Deondre Jackson: "y0 nigga, long azz i keep callin whitey a racist and play on dey white guilt I can stay on da welfare and have 15 white baby momma, while I pimp around in my new kicks throwin dubs. EAST SIDE nigguh!"

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A resource that blacks, jews, and beaners fight over. With out white guilt blacks would starve or be deported to the shit hole called Africa. Without white guilt jews would be run out of the country, and iseral would cease to exist. Without white guilt mexicans would be forced back to mexico.

The biggest fear blacks, jews and mexicans have is whitey saying fuck you I don't do guilt trips, and white guilt ending.